Garden Journal May Challenge: History of the garden 🌱 and passion.

A dream doesn't come true by magic, it takes sweat, determination and hard work. 
            - Colin Powell

Hello #hive and #Hivegarden friends!

Gardening is one of my passions, since I was a little girl I once saw my mother's garden very messy and the plants deserved to be dubbed and changed of materos. And from there my interest in plants was born. Then when I formed my family in the first rented house there were some plants and several times I nicknamed them, trying to give them rounded or square shapes.

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I kept in my mind the need to have plants in my home even though I had no piped water because it went through a neighbor's yard and they arbitrarily cut the pipe and I had no more water. I started to have my plants in pots in the living room for many years. But I took them out only when it rained often so that the leaves could be cleaned from the dust. Every day in the morning we would go to my mother's house to get 100 liters of water in 5 containers of 20 liters. I did that before going to work every day for several years, there were few cistern tanks, there was a lot of demand and they did not come to the call, it was desperate.

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I started by buying a thousand liter tank. And the garden grew, and the need for water was greater added to this the vehicle was damaged and I could not go out to fetch water from my mother. It was decided to buy another tank for 1000 liters more, although it was expensive it had to be done. In the days of the pandemic it was more difficult, the confinement made me decide to enlarge the garden, it was part of my entertainment, I learned to save water to such an extent that I watered twice a day.

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I bought a punch bowl to put the water away when bathing. This would be useful for the basins. Sometimes I would go to my mother's house to bathe and wash to economize and to water my plants. I still get water by cistern. It has been about 18 years. At the moment there are no resources or will to improve the pumping of drinking water, let alone repair all the water pipes throughout the city. We have to continue with the use of water by order to water marketers by tanker trucks.

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But the human being looks for ways to solve the situation, until he gets used to it and applies methods. Consume 2000 liters in 45 days. Also when it rains 🌧 I store about 200 liters for watering, washing floors and sinks. Everything is done because it is a way to save, and spend or waste as little as possible.

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Right now at 1:00 pm I went out and photographed the high temperature is noticeable, the leaves are sad ☹.

Several days ago, in this city, the temperature has been high, it has not rained since 2 weeks. There are some recommendations to reduce the excess heat and of course one of the living beings that suffer are the plants and animals. And we must protect them to try to appease the excess heat by applying more watering and / or changing their location so that the sun's rays do not fall on them.

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Passion has grown to have flowering plants such as lilies, petunias, crown of Christ, cayenne, trinitarias and succulents. Also fruit trees such as parchitas and lechosa.

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At this moment there is an operation in the locality to plant ornamental and fruit trees, they want the temperature to decrease, to celebrate the Tree day this May 26th 🌳🌴. They are collecting to plant that day more than 5000 trees such as cují, apamate, araguaney, lemon, loquat, cedar, Trinitarian. I will be collaborating through my daughter, because the university is one of the organizers, the students, and faculty are responsible for collecting several plants to be planted together with the municipality: 01 Trinitarian, 01 olive tree. I would have liked to collaborate with more plants, but they are very small, perhaps if this activity had been announced a few months in advance, we would have made seedlings and we would have obtained more and better developed plants. In addition, people in general will join in planting that day.